Bessières, Macdonald, and Masséna—three of Napoleon’s most renowned marshals. Each played a crucial role in shaping the empire, from Masséna’s brilliance in battle to Macdonald’s ...

An excellent look at Napoleon and at European warfare in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Napoleon as a General will likely be dismissed by Bonapartophiles.

In less than six weeks, the French reached the Danube, catching the Austrian army of General Karl Mack by surprise. While his enemy wavered, Napoleon struck the decisive blow. ELTING: He comes ...

who insisted on calling Napoleon General Bonaparte. Only one weapon was left him — words. With words, he would launch his last campaign. Day after day, he dictated his memoirs, forging the story ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

General Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as a crusader, tyrant, and initiator of a series of wars. But one of his lesser-known offenses — abandoning a crew of scholars and scientists in Egypt ...

TASS/. The remains of Napoleon’s close friend General Charles-Etienne Gudin, killed during the Russian campaign of 1812, were delivered to Paris on Tuesday in the run-up to France’s national ...